Smyrna times., 1887-02-09
NEIDER.
For the SmVTnd Times
More Hard Luck for Peter Flopper.

When Biggs was chosen for Delaware's
1t brought to Peter unspeakable grief;
He had Topped from temperance, so dear
to his heart
Espoused the party was with in the start,
With sanguine hopes his faction would gain
And Cochran over fair Delaware reign.
For several weeks poor Peter was sad,
And the thought he was guiled made him
terribly mad
But friends gathered round, and soothingly
spoke
Some honied words fresh prospects awoke.
And Peter returned to his copy" and
"stick"
To help the Salisbury faction to lick
The battle now wages for certain control
OF the State Assembly, both body and soul;
And this will secure the election OF Gray,
And the promise is given, will open the way
In the award Of the printing for Peter to
win;
And jubilant set both Peter and kin
The election is over and counted the poll.
And Peter is happy both body and soul;
For certain and sure they'd conquered the
day,
This ring of Peter and Wolcott and Gray:
And his visions were bright, his spirit elate,
The printing was his of Delaware State.
He flew to his desk and chucked in the type;
He sat himself down and puifed ut his pipe,
And dreamed of a certain bonanza in store,
And well-nigh forgot he'd ever been poor ;
And the ills of the past seemed far far
away,
Since the triumph of Peter and Wolcott
and GRAY
The sages convened, and jublant set,
Not filthy Repub has any one met;
The party that won, it swept the whole
State,
And asked their opponents a while longer
Before they could share in the State legis-
OF one Of the Oldest States of the nation
Biggs was installed, and then came the day
W hen with acclaim they voted in Gray;
But down goes the beam ut the Opposite end,
And Herbert is in, and Bnice his friend;
And the faction of Peter is routed and heat,
And tho salisbury triumph full and com
plete.
That the printing is gone poor Peter admits,
And sad and despondent and cherries he
sits;
The stick " must be set by others en-
ployed;
His spirit. alas of happiness void;
And Peter concludes that matters 90 i'll.
Since he has lost that fat printing bill.
But Peter won't down, though rough be his
way,
He's sanguine tomorrow, if despairing to-
day
And scarcely is lost chance at the printing,
When to the temperance folk he is limiting
Although he fought partisan prohibition y
He still stands firm on the Act of Sub
mission"
But again has he blundered, the cold water
crew
viii never trust Peter to help their cause
through;
And then what is worse, old Pete has IA boss.
Who came TO the office provokinglv cross
And bade him desist from temperance ia n,
Or out of the otlico he'd certainly walk.
For temperance laws in Delaware State
The people must longer patiently wait:
Ihough the demon of drink may blight and
destroy, anu
I,mp'overish the parent and beggar the boy.
ANA sweep into hell its legiODs nj will
They dare not molest this trade of the st;,l
No Act of Submission" for Delaware
State; '''""'e
The victims Of rum are left to their fate.
ana tne 0EelSes are on Peter, and some saw
in Dover, '''''o say
Nor have those sages the eouraoa ,r q ,,,,..
Nor can Peter Flopper. save NJ grent I'',
10 counter unto the will of his boss VS.
I,i Ihe post office gone, and BENJAMIN in
Inc printing another to certainly win
ana Peter besides being pushed 10 tbe wall
nil ana another owning his paper and nll
;s M Heart ss oppressed, his euuntenance wan
MS 'r'ehus are but few, his business qone.
February 3, 1887. "iAN"'